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* [[Berserk Button]]: Teasing Cutter for only having one eye tends to piss him off.
* [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]: Mr. Jinx's physiology gets increasingly ridiculous as the series progresses, and is frequently lampshaded.
{{quote| '''Cutter:''' [http://starslip.com/2009/10/14/starslip-number-1134/ "Mr. Jinx! Use one of your gross biological functions to stun him!"]}}
** "His" anesthetic saliva and ability to vent chloroform are used frequently.
* [[Body Backup Drive]]: Quine does this. If his body is killed, a new one is created in a cloning tank on board ship and his consciousness downloaded into it.
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* [[Brown Note]] The Spine of the Cosmos, when viewed in context, makes people into mental slaves of whom ever owns it. {{spoiler|But it's art, so if you alter its context enough to [[Death of the Author|make the artist's intended meaning inapplicable...]]}}
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Used by Vanderbeam on occasion when he tries to sound "authoritative".
{{quote| '''Vanderbeam:''' Target its ''go-parts'' and ''make explosions''.}}
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Officer Quine
* [[Canon Welding]]: Vore, AKA Vaporware came from ''[[Checkerboard Nightmare]]'', Straub's previous strip.
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** [[Historical In-Joke]]: Hitler survived a ''lot'' of assassination attempts through what seemed like pure blind luck.
* [[Human Notepad]]: {{spoiler|Katarakis}} uses this to cause Deep Time to {{spoiler|detonate the Jupiter Bomb ahead of schedule...}}
{{quote| ''[http://starslip.com/2009/01/01/starslip-number-946/ "NEVER LEAVE A POWER-MAD TIME DESPOT ALONE WITH A SPORK."]''}}
* [[I Didn't Mean to Turn You On]]: Poor Holiday...
* [[Immortal Life Is Cheap]]
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* [[Naked on Revival]]: Quine, over and over again.
* [[Noodle Implements]]:
{{quote| '''[http://starslip.com/2006/11/22/starslip-number-394/ Aldus Vanderbeam]''': I also learned I wasn't good at talking to nude models, art professors, the dean of the art department, and campus police. You will never hear that story.<br />
'''[http://starslip.com/2008/01/16/starslip-number-697/ Ervoth Von Lucifuge]''': Remember the Harrakon disaster of '37? That was ''me''. And ''six trained goldfish''. }}
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Hyper-Maine's accident
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* [[Shout-Out]]: [http://starslip.com/2007/01/09/starslip-number-428/ This strip].
** [http://starslip.com/2008/01/28/starslip-number-705/ Also:]
{{quote| '''Mr. Jinx''': "My family doesn't talk about cousin [[Cloverfield]], sir."<ref>This strip was put up ''the day after'' someone commented on the forums on how the Cloverfield monster reminded him of a Cirbozoid. Straub replied with a linke to the strip and the phrase "[[Sure Why Not|CANON'D]]</ref>".}}
** The [http://starslip.com/2010/11/03/then-your-teeth-are-removed/ mech] Vanderbeam pilots to fight an overgrown Jinx is essentially an [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion]].
*** And it carries the designation number [[James Bond|007]].
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